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US2648440A
US2648440A US124071A US12407149A US2648440A US 2648440 A US2648440 A US 2648440A US 124071 A US124071 A US 124071A US 12407149 A US12407149 A US 12407149A US 2648440 A US2648440 A US 2648440A
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    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
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    • B01D24/00—Filters comprising loose filtering material, i.e. filtering material without any binder between the individual particles or fibres thereof
    • B01D24/02—Filters comprising loose filtering material, i.e. filtering material without any binder between the individual particles or fibres thereof with the filter bed stationary during the filtration
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    • B01D24/00—Filters comprising loose filtering material, i.e. filtering material without any binder between the individual particles or fibres thereof
    • B01D24/46—Regenerating the filtering material in the filter
    • B01D24/4631—Counter-current flushing, e.g. by air
    • B01D24/4642—Counter-current flushing, e.g. by air with valves, e.g. rotating valves
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    • B01D24/46—Regenerating the filtering material in the filter
    • B01D24/4668—Regenerating the filtering material in the filter by moving the filtering element
    • B01D24/4673—Regenerating the filtering material in the filter by moving the filtering element using rotary devices or vibration mechanisms, e.g. stirrers

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  • a further object of my invention is to provide a ei qdo tc e ninas ndt trr. b d w chshal be particularly adapted f or v removingmanganese and iron compounds from the filter sand.
  • a sti-lli' further object is tozprovide a method of.cleaning-sand filter beds, which shall also beeffective tosterilize .the filter.
  • NaHSOs+H2SO4 NaI-ISOH-HzSOs Both sodium bisulfite and sulfurous acid have acid and reducing properties and react with the metallic and other impurities in the filter bed to form soluble compounds which are carried away with the wash water.
  • the proportions released are approximately as follows: 1 part sulfurous acid, 1.2 parts sulfuric acid and 1.5 parts sodium bisulfate.
  • sulfurous acid reduces hydrated manganese dioxide to a bivalent manganese which then combines with the oxidized sulfurous ion to give water soluble manganese sulfate.
  • sulfuric acid dissolves ferric hydroxide to form soluble ferric sulfate. While I do not know what chemical reactions take place when sodium bisulfate comes in contact with manganese and iron compounds in the presence of sulfurous acid and suli1uric;acid-, I do;know th-at the manganese and.
  • iron compounds areremoved, from-the sand much faster whensodium bisulfate and-.sulfurous acid are; released concomitantly thindm s nd -.a d ;.t e. i e enqe o s lfuric. acid than when sulfurous acid alone is used: to.
  • Figl is a plan viewyland Fig. 2 is ,a sect ional view taken along; line,
  • nerefreravel t :1 elQw t es avel is a f lse bot-- tom i3 ha;ving a plurality of holes .14,- therein which are covered by strainers [6.
  • the filter is first back washed in the usual manner by passing water upwardly through the filter bed, admitting the water through valve 24. After washing, the water is lowered to within approximately one foot of the sand.
  • Anhydrous sodium bisulfite is then spread over the top of the sand II with a shovel or by other suitable means as uniformly as possible in the proportion of from 1 to 5.7 pounds of sodium bisulfite per square foot of sand surface area, or 400 to 2000 pounds of sodium bisulfite per million gallons of maximum daily plant capacity depending upon the impurities to be removed.
  • the sodium bisulfite is dissolved and is distributed by agitating the solution as by means of a surface agitator 3
  • Sulfuric acid is then poured slowly into the filter, using 2.8 to 9.8 pounds of sulfuric acid (66 B.) per square foot of sand surface area, or 1000 to 3500 pounds of sulfuric acid (66 B.) per million gallons of maximum daily plant capacity, depending upon the amount of iron and manganese to be removed from the filter bed.
  • the usual precautions must be exercised in handling the'acid.
  • the water is next lowered in the filter to within an inch of the sand by allowing the water to pass out through the regulating valve 22 to the sewer line.
  • the filter is slowly'refilled, by means of the wash water pump 25, to a depth of one foot over the sand II, this procedure is repeated twice.
  • the level of the solution is then raised to the maximum water level, indicated at X, and held for approximately 15 minutes to clean the inner walls 32 of the filter receptacle 10.
  • the filter is then washed until a normal pl-l value in the water flowing into the wash water trough 26 has been obtained.
  • alkali such as lime or soda ash
  • the amount of alkali added should be at least equal in weight to the weight of the acid placed on the sand and should be added as uniformly as possible during the first ten minutes of washing the filter.
  • the sand is examined and if clean, the filter is returned to service after filtering to waste for a few minutes. If the sand is not clean the above process should be repeated.
  • the method of cleaning a sand filter and the walls thereof comprising the steps of covering the filter sand bed with water, dissolving in said water from 1 to 5.7 pounds of sodium bisulfite per square foot of sand surface area thus forming anaqueous solution of sodium bisulfite, adding sulfuric acid in an amount equivalent to from 2.8 to 9.8 pounds at 66 B.

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Aug. 1953 w. o. MULLINS 2,648,440
PROCESS FOR CLEANING FILTER SAND BEDS Filed Oct. 28, 1949 IN VEN TOR. WM. 1. lflM a. MUL LIA/6 Patented Aug. 11, 1953 SANI) BEDS iam fl-" lins M inerr,..- a- ..a sigiia to wittichen chemibal (lomnanyia corporation A ma;
mzlitefion geioberd t ;:S iaLNotmaQur 2 Glaims., (01. 21.9 130);
inv ntion r l te -t animprove m thod. y aninefi te d d andhas f r n object to provide such a method which shall. be. simple.. and, economical and which shall be effective to,.,
clean the beds. Within a minimum, of time, thereby avoiding the necessity of taking the filter out. 4
of service-for anextended period of time.
A further object of my invention is to provide a ei qdo tc e ninas ndt trr. b d w chshal be particularly adapted f or v removingmanganese and iron compounds from the filter sand.
A sti-lli' further object is tozprovide a method of.cleaning-sand filter beds, which shall also beeffective tosterilize .the filter.
Heretofore published methods of cleaning filter; beds. have.- .included... the -use. .of.-- sulfur --dioxide which is introducedfibelow the-filter bed and allowed to flow upward-lythrough the bed until a suitable concentration eof sulfi rousacid is obtained in the filter. The water level is then raised above the top of thesand-and the solution is allowed tostand for several hours in order to complete the reaction withgtherforeign matter in the sand. bed. I have. discovered a method .of
Cleaning. s n er d .whereb la much. shorter period of time is required.
In carrying out my improved method I add sodium bisulfite to the water over the sand in the filter and then add approximately twice as much sulfuric acid as is required to react with the sodium bisulfite. The water level in the filter is then lowered to bring the acid and sodium bisulfite down into the sand. This brings about a chemical reaction within the sand bed thereby releasing sulfurous acid and sodium bisulfite in addition to the unreacted sulfuric acid, as follows:
NaHSOs+H2SO4 NaI-ISOH-HzSOs Both sodium bisulfite and sulfurous acid have acid and reducing properties and react with the metallic and other impurities in the filter bed to form soluble compounds which are carried away with the wash water. The proportions released are approximately as follows: 1 part sulfurous acid, 1.2 parts sulfuric acid and 1.5 parts sodium bisulfate.
As is well known, sulfurous acid reduces hydrated manganese dioxide to a bivalent manganese which then combines with the oxidized sulfurous ion to give water soluble manganese sulfate. Also, sulfuric acid dissolves ferric hydroxide to form soluble ferric sulfate. While I do not know what chemical reactions take place when sodium bisulfate comes in contact with manganese and iron compounds in the presence of sulfurous acid and suli1uric;acid-, I do;know th-at the manganese and. iron compounds areremoved, from-the sand much faster whensodium bisulfate and-.sulfurous acid are; released concomitantly thindm s nd -.a d ;.t e. i e enqe o s lfuric. acid than when sulfurous acid alone is used: to.
clean the sand.
The two, views ,in. the accompanying drawing show 1 diagrammatically a typical -filter, embody-as?- ing-a sand filter bed and in conjunction .with,the 1;: following description. illustrates the -metho d =.;of
carrying out my invention in: which Figl is a plan viewyland Fig. 2 is ,a sect ional view taken along; line,
11-11 of Fig. 1..
Referring now tothe'dra-wing- I show-a filter eeptacl ntain nela l ye f nd-H and;
nerefreravel: t :1 elQw t es avel is a f lse bot-- tom i3 ha;ving a plurality of holes .14,- therein which are covered by strainers [6. The bottoms:
of the receptacle is shown at l1;spac edfrom;the
' false bottom;;l3.c The; filtered wateris collected above the bottom 4;! and flowstherefromthroughi a pipe; l8gha-ving a regulating Valve-IB-there' mmuni atin w th. pe-1.8 andtheis w il is a pipe 2 I having a regulating valve Z-Ztherein Also communicating with the p pe [8 is a pipe 23, having a regulating valve 24 therein and which communicates with the wash water pump 25. In the washing process the water enters the bottom of the filter through pipe 23 and is collected in a trough 26 above the sand H. The trough is inclined to allow the water to drain away to the sewer through a pipe 21 having a valve 28 therein. Also communicating with pipe 21 is a pipe 29 having a valve 30 therein. This pipe admits the water which is to be filtered.
The filter is first back washed in the usual manner by passing water upwardly through the filter bed, admitting the water through valve 24. After washing, the water is lowered to within approximately one foot of the sand. Anhydrous sodium bisulfite is then spread over the top of the sand II with a shovel or by other suitable means as uniformly as possible in the proportion of from 1 to 5.7 pounds of sodium bisulfite per square foot of sand surface area, or 400 to 2000 pounds of sodium bisulfite per million gallons of maximum daily plant capacity depending upon the impurities to be removed. The sodium bisulfite is dissolved and is distributed by agitating the solution as by means of a surface agitator 3|, or where surface agitators are not installed, long handle paddles may be used.
Sulfuric acid is then poured slowly into the filter, using 2.8 to 9.8 pounds of sulfuric acid (66 B.) per square foot of sand surface area, or 1000 to 3500 pounds of sulfuric acid (66 B.) per million gallons of maximum daily plant capacity, depending upon the amount of iron and manganese to be removed from the filter bed. The usual precautions must be exercised in handling the'acid. The water is next lowered in the filter to within an inch of the sand by allowing the water to pass out through the regulating valve 22 to the sewer line. The filter is slowly'refilled, by means of the wash water pump 25, to a depth of one foot over the sand II, this procedure is repeated twice. The level of the solution is then raised to the maximum water level, indicated at X, and held for approximately 15 minutes to clean the inner walls 32 of the filter receptacle 10. The filter is then washed until a normal pl-l value in the water flowing into the wash water trough 26 has been obtained.
While washing the filter an alkali, such as lime or soda ash, is added to the sewer in order to neutralize the water going to waste. This will require from 1000 to 3500 pounds of alkali per million gallons of maximum daily plant capacity or 2.8 to 9.8 pounds of alkali per square foot of sand surface area. The amount of alkali added should be at least equal in weight to the weight of the acid placed on the sand and should be added as uniformly as possible during the first ten minutes of washing the filter.
The sand is examined and if clean, the filter is returned to service after filtering to waste for a few minutes. If the sand is not clean the above process should be repeated.
I wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to the exact details of carrying out my invention as herein described, for obvious modifications will occur to a person skilled in the art.
What I claim is:
1. The method of cleaning a filter sand bed comprising the steps of covering said bed with water, dissolving in said water from 1 to 5.7
4 tion of sodium bisulfite, adding sulfuric acid to said solution in an amount equivalent to form 2.8 to 9.8 pounds at 66 B. per square foot of sand surface area thus bringing about a chemical reaction, and drawing the solution thus formed down into thesand bed while said chemical reaction is taking place thus concomitantly releasing sodium bisulfate andsulfurous acid Within the sand bed.
2. The method of cleaning a sand filter and the walls thereof comprising the steps of covering the filter sand bed with water, dissolving in said water from 1 to 5.7 pounds of sodium bisulfite per square foot of sand surface area thus forming anaqueous solution of sodium bisulfite, adding sulfuric acid in an amount equivalent to from 2.8 to 9.8 pounds at 66 B. per square foot of sand surface area thus bringing about a chempounds of sodium bisulfite per square foot of sand surface area thus forming an aqueous soluical' reaction, drawing the solution thus formed down into the sand bed while said chemical reaction is taking place thus concomitantly releasing sodium bisulfate and sulfurous acid within the sand bed, and subsequently raising the level of the solution in the filter to the maximum water level thereof thereby cleaning the inner walls of the filter.
WILLIAM O. MULLINS.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,167,700 Laist et al. Jan. 11, 1916 1,897,638 Hubbell Feb. 14, 1933 1,989,789 Crew Feb. 5, 1935 2,069,621 Patrick Feb. 2, 1937 2,266,137 Westby Dec. 6, 1941 2,357,715 Westby Sept. 5, 1944 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 505,178 Great Britain May 2, 1939 OTHER REFERENCES Inorganic Reactions, Gilman (1929), pub. by Eclectic Publishers, Chicago; page 123 cited.

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1. THE METHOD OF CLEANING A FILTER SAND BED COMPRISING THE STEPS OF COVERING SAID BED WITH WATER, DISSOLVING IN SAID WATER FROM 1 TO 5.7 POUNDS OF SODIUM BISULFITE PER SQUARE FOOT OF SAND SURFACE AREA THUS FORMING AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF SODIUM BISULFITE, ADDING SULFURIC ACID TO SAID SOLUTION IN AN AMOUNT EQUIVALENT TO FORM 2.8 TO 9.8 POUNDS AT 66* BE. PER SQUARE FOOT OF SAND SURFACE AREA THUS BRINGING ABOUT A CHEMICAL REACTION, AND DRAWING THE SOLUTION THUS FORMED
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US3087622A (en) * 1959-08-24 1963-04-30 Richard E Abbott Oil filter with cleaning means
US3349031A (en) * 1965-08-20 1967-10-24 Calgon Corp Method and composition for removal of manganese from water
US3932278A (en) * 1974-02-15 1976-01-13 Sterling Drug Inc. Filter cleaning method
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US1897638A (en) * 1930-03-04 1933-02-14 Silica Company Of California L Purifying art
US1989789A (en) * 1934-02-19 1935-02-05 Joshua A Crew Process for removing ferrous impurities from sands
US2069621A (en) * 1935-12-07 1937-02-02 West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co Method of cleaning sand filters and appurtenances
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US2266137A (en) * 1938-04-19 1941-12-16 Westby George Cutler Process of treating manganese silicate ores
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US2768949A (en) * 1953-08-17 1956-10-30 George R Hewey Methods for treating clogged underground sewage drain systems
US3087622A (en) * 1959-08-24 1963-04-30 Richard E Abbott Oil filter with cleaning means
US3349031A (en) * 1965-08-20 1967-10-24 Calgon Corp Method and composition for removal of manganese from water
US3932278A (en) * 1974-02-15 1976-01-13 Sterling Drug Inc. Filter cleaning method
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